Every day I experience life in the world of healthcare IT, supporting 3000 doctors, 18000 faculty, and 3 million patients. In this blog I record my experiences with infrastructure, applications, policies, management, and governance as well as muse on such topics such as reducing our carbon footprint, standardizing data in healthcare, and living life to its fullest.

Monday, October 18, 2010

The FY11 BIDMC IS Operating Plan

The Beth Israel Deaconess fiscal year is October 1 to September 30, so FY11 capital and operating budgets are now approved, enabling us to finalize the yearly IS Operating Plan. My team and I complete it and widely communicate it every October.

Go live of our new suite of laboratory information systems, replacing 13 major applications.

Go live of MyTime - an enterprise labor time tracking solution

Numerous infrastructure upgrades to networking, storage, and security

Rollout of an electronic forms solution throughout the enterprise

Acceleration of our automated scanning project to digitize paper records we receive from outside the institution.

Retirement of all our legacy intranet sites, providing single signon access to all applications and knowledge resources

Continued rollout of streaming and video teleconferencing technologies

Advanced research administration support tools.

Meditech upgrades at our community hospital necessary to achieving meaningful use including CPOE.

The task of building better applications and more reliable infrastructure is never done, but each year we get better and better. This year, we'll be guided by a new omnibus clinical governance committee which I'll write about later this week as part of my FY11 focus on governance at both BIDMC and Harvard Medical School.